Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:27:33 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) Message-ID: <200110030327.f933RXS08792@thistle.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 03:11:50 %2B0300." <20011003031149.B17924@hades.hell.gr>
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In message <20011003031149.B17924@hades.hell.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas cleopede: >Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have >> wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with >> 0xa0 instead of 0x20? > >All of them. Space is so conveniently placed under the tip of my thumb. >To type 0xa0 I would hav to use exotic keystroke combos like: > > Left_Alt + Num_1 + Num_6 + Num_0 > >and that's a real pain to type. I just type ALT(space). It's even easier than SHIFT(-) (underscore). Anyway, I have found using 0xa0 (and underscore) very handy to prevent the kinds of contortions necessary when dealing with filenames and other text using word-oriented tools. I really don't think that space characters belong in filenames, but that's just my opinion. Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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